Great Shipwrecks of the Twentieth Century

Since 1900 there have been, literally, hundreds of shipwrecks involving passenger ships and liners of all types. The vast majority of these have involved ships of minor importance and with no loss of life. Then, there have been those shipwrecks that have gripped the attention of the world. The wreck of the fabled Titanic was one such instance, but there have been many others that have faded from public awareness despite the drama and loss of life involved. The Titanic was not the largest ocean liner ever sunk, nor was the Titanic disaster the worst loss of life on board a passenger liner this century. In fact, it was not even close. In this book, Thomas E. Bonsall recounts all of the important passenger ship disasters of the century with fascinating narrative and riveting photographs, many of which have never before been published in book form. This is truly a book no one interested in ships or disasters at sea should be without.